Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When they heard that the Boston Cinema Society was planning to show Birth of a Nation, members of the NAACP and the Equal Rights Society began addressing fervent protests to the City Censor and mumbling ominously about picket lines. Even though the film is a great cinema classic, it does present a rabidly Southern view of the Reconstruction era, and, after all, this would never...
Drexler then met with the groups who had called Milliken and found that if the movie was shown, they planned to send a delegation to Mayor Hines protesting the picture, and picket the theater (they had already begun to make up picket signs). They also predicted violence if the picture were shown, especially in the Fine Arts Theater (located near a heavily-populated Negro section...
Coach Bob Picket remarked that the new Ivy League football rulings were a blessing to all spring sports. Supplementing his squad with five Yardling football players, including ex-Captain Tim Anderson, Pickett has reason to be pleased. He continued, saying the team wasn't ready for any games as they have only had a week of real practice. "However," he continued, "they look very good for that amount of time...
...Crimson mentor still intends to stick with a picket line of Akillian, Bob Smith, and Ralph Robinson. The only other outfielders on the squad at this time are Dick Scheer and Dick Clasby, the second string catcher...
Only 300 workers at a Western Electric distributing house in Watertown left their jobs in this state, but operators and clerks are reportedly ready to honor Western Electric picket lines if they are set up at phone exchanges. No picketing has been in evidence here so far, but indications are that it may start Wednesday...